Protecting your personal information is important to us. This privacy notice explains how the coordinator of the Infra4NextGen project – European Social Survey European Research Infrastructure Consortium (ESS ERIC) – collects personal data, and your rights in relation to it.
Use of Cookies on Infra4NextGen
Our website, like most, uses cookies. You can manage or withdraw consent for their use via the Cookie Notice bar or via our Cookie policy page. If you prevent their use you will not be able to use all the functionality of our website.
The cookie consent logs do not include any Personally Identifiable Information.
We provide more information about the cookies we use in our Cookie policy page.
Analytical tool for web statistics
The infra4nextgen website uses the analytical tool Google Analytics 4 to monitor how readers use the website. Google Analytics is a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. (“Google”).
We use Google Analytics 4 to track how our site is being used: how users find our website, how they move around on it, how long they stay for. No Remarketing or Advertising features are set and IP addresses are anonymised while tracking.
Embedded content from other websites
Pages on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
The website uses web fonts provided by Google but these are hosted locally so no personal data is collected by Google’s content delivery network.
Security measures
Some data (including username, IP address, hostname, location) is temporarily stored in security logs on the server and database, and may be sent via email to alert the website administrator of critical problems or suspicious activities on the site.
To secure our website, we use the Wordfence and SiteGround Security Optimizer plugins.
The Wordfence Security plugin, provided by Defiant, Inc., protects against malicious attacks, brute force attempts, and malware. In doing so, Wordfence may process personal data, including IP addresses, login attempt information, and browser data, for the purpose of securing our site. This processing is based on our legitimate interest in maintaining a secure online environment (GDPR Art. 6(1)(f)). Wordfence may transfer this information to servers in the USA, adhering to standard contractual clauses to ensure data protection. Data is retained only as long as necessary to identify and mitigate threats.
SiteGround Security Optimizer may collect technical data, including IP addresses, in order to identify malicious attacks and prevent unauthorized logins. These security logs are stored for 8 days. For more information on how SiteGround processes this data, please visit their Plugins Privacy Notice.
To protect our contact form from spam and bot abuse, we use Cloudflare Turnstile. Turnstile is a security service from Cloudflare, Inc. that verifies that requests to our website are made by humans and not automated programs. This service collects certain visitor signals (such as IP address, browser type, and device info) to distinguish human users from malicious bots. This processing is necessary to ensure the security of our website and services. For more information, please refer to Cloudflare’s Turnstile Privacy Addendum.
Infra4NextGen e-newsletter
ESS ERIC – co-ordinator of the Infra4NextGen project – uses a third party – MAKE AS, a processor acting on instruction for ESS ERIC – to share your email address for the sole purpose of sending regular news bulletins, if you have selected this option.
Your email address will not be stored by the third party beyond an agreed period and will not be transferred outside the EU/EEA. We process your data (e-mail address) based on your consent. You can unsubscribe from the newsletter anytime by sending an email.
Contact details
The Director of the European Social Survey ERIC, Professor Rory Fitzgerald has appointed Sikt – Norwegian Agency for Shared Services in Education and Research (Norway) to act as its Data Protection Officer (DPO).
Should you have any concerns about your personal data by ESS ERIC please contact the DPO by email: dpo.esseric@europeansocialsurvey.org.
If you would like to make a complaint, please contact the Information Commissioner’s Office:
Information Commissioner’s Office
Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow Cheshire
SK9 5AF
+44 1625 545 700
For a list of all European Data Protection Supervisors
http://ec.europa.eu/newsroom/article29/item-detail.cfm?item_id=612080
ESS ERIC Representative in the EU (Art. 27): CESSDA ERIC, Solheimsgaten 16, 5058 Bergen, Norway:
Last Updated: 15-Aug-2026
